26 Facts About Mississauga Ontario

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Mississauga Ontario is not a traditional city, but is instead an amalgamation of three former villages, two townships, and a number of rural hamlets that were significant population centres, with none being clearly dominant, prior to the city's incorporation that later coalesced into a single urban area.

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Mississauga Ontario itself was established in 1968 as a town, and was reincorporated as a city in 1974, when Peel was restructured into a regional municipality.

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3.

Name Mississauga Ontario comes from the Anishinaabe word, meaning "[Those at the] Great River-mouth".

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4.

Artifacts show that residents of Mississauga Ontario engaged in long-distance trade, likely as part of the Hopewell tradition.

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5.

In total Mississauga Ontario is covered by four treaties: Treaty 14, Treaty 19, Treaty 22 and Treaty 23.

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6.

Part of northeast Mississauga Ontario, including the Airport lands and Malton were a part of Toronto Gore Township.

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7.

Except for small villages, some gristmills and brickworks served by railway lines, most of present-day Mississauga Ontario was agricultural land, including fruit orchards, through much of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

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8.

For many years afterwards, the name "Mississauga Ontario" was, for Canadians, associated with a major rail disaster.

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9.

Apart from the embankments of Credit River valley, it tributaries and the Iroquois shoreline, the only noticeable hills in Mississauga Ontario are actually part of the former Britannia Landfill, now a golf course on Terry Fox Way.

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10.

Mississauga Ontario's climate is similar to that of Toronto and is considered to be moderate, located in plant hardiness zone 6b.

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11.

The climate of Mississauga Ontario is officially represented by Pearson International Airport but because of its topography and large surface area conditions can differ depending on location: fog tends to be more common along the lakeshore and in the Credit River Valley at certain times of year, particularly during the spring and autumn.

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12.

Mississauga Ontario is an aircraft development hub with Canadian headquarters of Aerospace companies such as Magellan Aerospace and Honeywell Aerospace.

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13.

Mississauga Ontario has a vibrant arts community, promoted by the Mississauga Ontario Arts Council, which holds an annual awards ceremony, called the MARTYs, to celebrate the city's entertainers, artists, filmmakers, writers, and musicians.

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14.

Mississauga Ontario has a significant Jewish population, with active community classes, cultural activities and holiday celebrations.

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15.

Mississauga Ontario Library System is a municipally owned network of 18 libraries.

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16.

Mississauga Ontario planned over 60 free events to bring more people to the city square.

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17.

Art Gallery of Mississauga Ontario is a public, not-for-profit art gallery located in the Mississauga Ontario Civic Centre right on Celebration Square across from the Living Arts Centre and Square One Shopping Centre.

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18.

Mississauga Ontario is home to many indoor playgrounds including Playdium, Kids Time Family Fun Centre, KidSports indoor playground, and Laser Quest Centre.

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19.

Toronto–Sarnia Via Rail trains on the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor pass through Mississauga Ontario and make request stops at Malton GO Station in the northeast of the city.

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20.

In 2010, the City of Mississauga Ontario approved a Cycling Master Plan outlining a strategy to develop over 900 kilometres of on and off-road cycling routes in the city over the next 20 years.

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21.

City's two main hospitals—Credit Valley Hospital and Mississauga Ontario Hospital—were amalgamated into the Trillium Health Partners hospital group in December 2011.

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22.

The health system and the administration for students in Mississauga Ontario was the property of the Peel District School Board Health Centre and the health support for citizens in Mississauga Ontario was the property of Peel Health Centre.

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23.

Mississauga Ontario is the home to the University of Toronto Mississauga Ontario, one of three campuses of the University of Toronto.

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24.

Mississauga Ontario is served by the Peel District School Board, which operates the secular Anglophone public schools, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, which operates Catholic Anglophone public schools, the Conseil scolaire Viamonde, which operates secular Francophone schools, and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud, which operates Catholic Francophone schools.

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25.

Mississauga Ontario is part of the Toronto media market and is served by media based in Toronto, with markets in the Greater Toronto Area that cover most of the news in the GTA.

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26.

However, Mississauga Ontario has The Mississauga Ontario News, a regional newspaper that is published two days a week in print and daily online.

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